Hello,
I am tinkering a bit with options(), namely, how to query and set them
up to suit my needs.
1)
The basic problem seems that the editor entry in options looks like this:
> options()
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$editor
[1] "emacsclient"
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After setting this option to /usr/bin/emacs by doing:
> options(editor="/usr/bin/emacs")
I try to run fix(fun) or edit(fun) and run into this error:
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Error in edit(name, file, editor) : An error occurred on line 17
use a command like
x <- edit()
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This error is also noticed when loading the function into edit()/fix(),
doing some changes and trying to save these modifications too tmp buffer.
2)
Furthermore I try to set the $editor option not only for current but
also for future session!? It seems like that I run regularily into
troubles starting $editor(emacsclient) from within Emacs/ESS/R enviromnent.
How to do that?
I've read in FAQ that local copies of .Options are quietly disregarded
at start up.
So I started looking at the global one in /etc/R/Renvir directory and
also tried :
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> save.image()
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But this wasn't of much help to store the $editor variable on the long run!
(Since I am at the beginning of my exploration of R I didn't want to
mess up the whole system configuration by doing some modifications to
this file)
Obviousely, I don't do it correctly, but I can't figure out whats wrong?
Anyone help is appreciated.
Thanks
Thomas
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platform i386-pc-linux-gnu
arch i386
os linux-gnu (Debian)
system i386, linux-gnu
status
major 1
minor 9.1
year 2004
month 06
day 21
language R
Emacs21 21.3+1-7
ESS 5.2.2-2
